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Arrington

Ghost town · Sumter County, Alabama

Coatopa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)
Coatopa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Arrington is a ghost town in Sumter County, Alabama. It is one of 3 former communities in Sumter County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 25th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Arrington as a historical populated place on the Coatopa topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 32.4846° N, 88.1192° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCoatopa
Elevation149 ft
Nearest living townBellamy, AL
Distance to it1.6 miles
GNIS feature ID134076
Coordinates32.48458, -88.11919

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Arrington today, aerial view
Coatopa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)

Left: Coatopa quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Arrington is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Bellamy, AL (population 190), about 1.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 149 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Arrington?

Arrington is in Sumter County, Alabama, at 32.4846, -88.1192.

How many ghost towns are in Sumter County?

Sumter County, Alabama has 3 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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